THINK GLOBAL AND ACT LOCAL

Mercedes-Benz and Amazon jointly advocate climate protection and bring locally emission-free mobility to the streets

Mercedes-Benz AG joins “The Climate Pledge” – a commitment co-founded by Amazon and Global Optimism.

• Objective of the commitment: carbon neutrality of all signatory companies ten years before the target set in the Paris Agreement.
• Mercedes-Benz supports this goal with “Ambition2039“.

In 2019, Amazon and Global Optimism founded “The Climate Pledge”. The initiative has set itself the goal of contributing to achieving the goals of the Paris Agreement ten years earlier than it is intended there, i.e. already in 2040. The signing companies agree to:

• Measure and report greenhouse gas emissions on a regular basis.
• Implement decarbonisation strategies in line with the Paris Agreement through real business change and innovation, including efficiency improvements, renewable energy, materials reductions, and other carbon emission elimination strategies.
• Take actions to neutralize any remaining emissions with additional, quantifiable, real, permanent and socially-beneficial offsets to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040.

Mercedes-Benz has now joined the Climate Pledge and supports the initiative with its own “Ambition 2039” initiative.

Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz AG:
«At Mercedes-Benz, we have set ourselves the ambitious target to make the transformation of mobility a success story. By joining ‘The Climate Pledge’ we are building on our goal to consistently pursue emission-free mobility and sustainable vehicle production.
We stand with Amazon, Global Optimism and the other signatories of The Climate Pledge, in a commitment to being net zero carbon by 2040 – ten years ahead of The Paris Agreement. I am pleased that we will be able to gain even more momentum on our sustainability offensive with this step.»

«We welcome the bold leadership demonstrated by Mercedes-Benz by signing up to The Climate Pledge and committing to ambitious action to address climate change.» says Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO.
«We need continued innovation and partnership from auto manufacturers like Mercedes-Benz to decarbonize the transportation sector and tackle the climate crisis. The addition of 1,800 electric delivery vehicles is another step in our journey to building the most sustainable transportation fleet in the world, and we will be moving fast to get these vans on the road this year.»

One year ago, Mercedes-Benz presented its “Ambition2039”, a roadmap to CO₂-neutral mobility. With that, the company is looking at the entire value chain, from development to the supplier network, its own production to the electrification of products and beyond to renewable energies for the use phase of electric vehicles.
With its goal to have a CO₂-neutral fleet of new cars in less than 20 years, the company is making an important contribution to slowing down climate change. The company is already making good progress in this direction: by the end of this year, the vehicle portfolio will comprise five fully electric models and more than 20 plug-in hybrids.

Vehicle production has a crucial role to play on the road to zero-emission mobility. From 2022, Mercedes-Benz’s own passenger car and vans plants will be CO₂-neutral. This comprises more than 30 car and van plants worldwide. One important component of this is battery production, which will also be CO₂-neutral worldwide from 2022.

Amazon order of more than 1,800 electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz Vans.

• Amazon places the largest order of electric vehicles for Mercedes-Benz to date.
• The electric vehicles from this order will begin making deliveries to customers in Europe in 2020.

Today Mercedes-Benz Vans and Amazon announce the largest order for Mercedes-Benz electric vehicles to date: more than 1,800 battery-electric eVito and eSprinter from Mercedes-Benz Vans will be delivered to Amazon starting this year to be used across Europe. The order includes around 600 medium-sized eVito and more than 1,200 vehicles of the large-size van eSprinter.

«I am delighted that we are further intensifying our long-standing partnership with Amazon and working together on the battery-electric future of transportation.» says Marcus Breitschwerdt, Head of Mercedes-Benz Vans. «With the eVito and the eSprinter, we have electric vehicles in our portfolio, which are ideally suited for the requirements of the courier-, express- and parcel-service industry for goods delivery on the so-called ‘last mile’ in terms of their equipment and range. They show that local emission-free driving, convincing performance, comfort and low operating costs can be combined perfectly.»

Electrification of traffic on the so-called “last mile” is progressing. In particular, the courier-, express- and parcel-services industry (CEP) is a great driver here. The growing online trade and flexible delivery services in recent years not only brought an increase in inner-city traffic, but also lead to increasing local emission-free drives in urbanized areas. In addition, the preconditions are good for the use of electric vans in the CEP industry: routes can be planned well in advance, are manageable in length and distance and normally there are larger areas near distribution centres of the logistics service providers, which are suitable for the commissioning of corresponding charging infrastructure.

Mercedes-Benz Vans and Amazon: since 2018 in cooperation for modern mobility

Mercedes-Benz Vans and Amazon Logistics Germany recognized the potential of a collaboration in the field of electric mobility early on, and put into operation in 2018. Together with the Mercedes-Benz contract partner Fahrzeug-Werke LUEG AG and other partners equipped the Amazon distribution centre in the North Rhine-Westphalia city of Bochum with charging infrastructure. In July 2020 Europe’s largest connected charging infrastructure of about 340 charging points at the Amazon Delivery Station in Essen was established by LUEG basecamp GmbH. The companies have been cooperating in many ways also on an international basis.